Sanders asks supporters to back 4 Democratic candidates

Sen. Bernie Sanders highlighted four Democratic Senate candidates for his followers to support in a new fundraising email on Monday.

Sanders, through his Friends of Bernie Sanders email list, asked supporters to donate $2.70 to help Katie McGinty in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan, former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto.

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"I want to be clear: It is very important that our movement holds public officials accountable. The Democratic Party passed an extremely progressive agenda at the convention. Our job is to make sure that platform is implemented. That will not happen without Democratic control of the Senate," Sanders wrote in the email, with the subject line "Winning the Senate."